Napa, California Microsoft Premier Consultants

The integration requirements of Windows Server architecture calls for a network support group with hands-on experience and extensive technical skill in planning and implementing cohesive information technology systems. Progent's veteran Microsoft-certified consultants, with an average of over a decade of work history in Microsoft technology support, assures you success implementing Microsoft Windows Servers in ways that fully align with your long-term business goals. Progent's engineers can help your Napa, California company with designing, installing, managing, and troubleshooting Windows Server-based environments that maximize the strategic value of your information network.

Progent maintains an expert staff of Microsoft-certified support engineers who can assist your company to repair Windows Server issues quickly through Progent's Technical Response Center. This service can lower repair costs and minimize network downtime by applying Progent's time-tested online troubleshooting processes. Progent has provided online help to small and medium-size companies in each state in the United States and in numerous regions worldwide. (Visit Progent's customer commendations).

Progent's Cisco CCIE certified network engineers can help with tough infrastructure problems that affect Microsoft Windows Server efficiency. Progent's group of Cisco certified CCIE network infrastructure experts is one of the largest ever assembled to provide urgent CCIE online service to small businesses.

Progent's CISM and CISA certified security engineers can help your business to defend against or clean up after security breaches. Progent's security engineers can provide a thorough security audit of your company-wide defenses and can recommend enhancements to your security architecture and processes to safeguard your information system.

Progent's Windows Server consulting and troubleshooting experts can assist your business to prepare for and perform non-disruptive upgrades from older systems to a current Windows Server technology. Also, Progent can offer 24x7 system monitoring to make sure your organization's network and application servers stay operational, and Help Desk Support or Co-managed Help Desk Services for efficiently escalating server issues to certified experts. Progent can help your company you to design, implement and manage Windows Server environments that include local and cloud-based resources. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud solutions.)

Windows Server 2016 Migration Support and Cloud Integration Solutions
Progent's Microsoft-certified IT consultants can provide Windows Server 2016 migration consulting services to assist businesses of all sizes to design and carry out a smooth upgrade to Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 based on a local, cloud, or hybrid deployment model. Progent can help you to evaluate the business value of Windows Server 2016 for your environment and can help you with any facet of designing, configuring, managing or debugging your Windows Server 2016 and Windows Hyper-V 2016 ecosystem. Progent can help your organization to take advantage of the many new high-availability and security capabilities of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 such as Windows Containers, Shielded Virtual Machines, Credential Guard and Remote Credential Guard, Just In Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management, Virtual Machine software load, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss disaster recovery, plus workgroup and multi-domain clusters. Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can assist you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools.

Windows 2008 Consulting Support
Microsoft Windows 2008 delivers all of the advantages of prior releases of Windows Server and introduces important improvements such as virtual servers, expanded web support, better protection, and easier management. Progent can help your business to support Windows 2008 or upgrade to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 to bolster the dependability, protection, performance, and functionality of your IT network while at the same time reducing support expenses and management hassle. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Windows Server 2008 support.

Windows 2000 Server Integration and Migration Support
Windows 2000 builds on the power of Microsoft Windows NT's next-generation technology, incorporating Active Directory, application, communications, file, and print services with high reliability, easy management, and support for advanced networking hardware to provide a proven platform for merging your business processes with the Internet. Progent's Microsoft certified consulting experts can assist your business to support IT environments that include Microsoft Windows 2K Servers or help you in upgrading to newer versions of Microsoft Windows servers. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Microsoft Windows 2000 integration and migration services.

Windows Server Upgrade Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to move from any Microsoft Windows Server system or legacy operating system to the latest version of Windows Server. Progent's consultants can assist you in all phases of your upgrade. Progent offers on-demand consulting to help you through the most complex parts of your transition, or Progent can deliver comprehensive project management services to make sure you follow leading practices in designing and installation and avoid expensive backtracking. However you use Progent's support, you will have the advantage of Progent's in-depth experience to realize the highest possible business value from your Windows Server environment. Find out additional information about Progent's Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Upgrade and Migration Consulting Support Services.

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Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified risk management consultant to help your company to plan and deploy an enterprise risk management (ERM) strategy following leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget.

If you are a network engineer with system support experience, teaming with Progent and helping our customers will expand your abilities through collaboration with our team of motivated, high-output consultants. Progent's concentration on providing IT consulting and technical support to small and midsize businesses will give you the opportunity to work in depth with business leaders and contribute tangibly to the growth of exciting organizations. In addition, Progent's virtual office environment provides the most advanced technology for remote support and wireless access to allow you to come up with speedy solutions when you troubleshoot mission-critical issues.

Remote server management cards offer IT administrators complete control of a server without the requirement for a personal presence. Using these management cards, all console screen information plus keyboard and mouse functionality are exported to a remote session to an IT professional who can be situated anywhere in the world. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco authorized consultants can assist you to design, deploy, and support a fault-tolerant company network that includes remote server management cards and Progent can use these remote server management cards to deliver efficient off-site technical help. Progent has experience with a number of remote server management cards including Aten IP9001 remote server management cards, American Megatrends remote management cards, Dell DRAC cards, HP Lights-Out 100c remote server management cards, and Peppercon eRIC remote server management cards.

Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers offer in-depth expertise in deploying, operating and debugging any edition of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server, and Project Online and can deliver a broad variety of affordable remote support services based on industry best practices to help organizations of all sizes to get all the benefits of this leading platform. Consulting support available from Progent include system design, installation and upgrades, strategies for secure collaboration among local and remote or mobile users, network optimization, and customized webinar training classes.

Progent provides consulting expertise for WatchGuard Firewall security gateways such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM lines of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can help you choose, configure, and maintain a WatchGuard Firewall product that fits your security needs and budget. Progent can assist you to maintain outdated WatchGuard firewalls or upgrade efficiently to current WatchGuard firewalls.

Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.

Progent practices information transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By educating clients to deal with technical issues that are within their comfort zone, Progent is able to concentrate on delivering hard-to-find services where Progent has little competition. Small businesses who work with familiar independent service providers or who employ internal IT staffs benefit when Progent transfers information about new technology and proven methodologies to make their networks more reliable, protected, and productive.

Before Progentís MOM-based solution, network problems were approached reactively, after users complained about them. With the benefit of proactive, automated alerts and trend analyses sent by Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can now address server troubles before they becomes serious enough to impact network uptime. Because of Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can deal with looming problems before clients are aware that the problems exist. Progent offers help for MOM 2005 and MOM 2000 to deliver small company networks enterprise-class reliability, safety and performance.

Ubiquiti's UniFi line of Wi-Fi network devices includes indoor and outdoor Wave 2 Wi-Fi APs, security gateways, and managed switches. UniFi devices installed throughout multiple sites with any number of APs can be remotely provisioned and managed using free UniFi Controller software, which centralizes and simplifies deployment, discovery, administration, tuning, debugging, monitoring, and analytics. Progent offers the expertise of veteran Wi-Fi professionals who can help you to assess the benefits of UniFi technology for your environment and help you to plan, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot your UniFi ecosystem.

Progent can assist businesses of all sizes to move all or part of their computing infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. This can streamline network management and reduce hardware investments. Azure includes a comprehensive library of public cloud services and Progent can assist you to understand the benefits and limitations of various cloud computing models you can use with Azure. Progent can help you manage cloud-resident or hybrid cloud and local apps and network infrastructure and make sure that you sidestep the typical errors small organizations make when moving to the cloud. Progent can show you how to configure VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, use cloud storage with Azure Storage, manage user identity with Azure Active Directory, and automate transparent backup mechanisms with Azure Backup. Progent can also assist you to configure perimeter firewalls and VPN connections and to manage iPhones and iPads and Android smartphones and tablets.

Small to mid-sized companies can now get all the advantages of System Center Operations Manager 2007 and also have quick access to Progentís Microsoft Certified IT support professionals. With Progent's affordably priced network support packages, small businesses can select a basic Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007-based co-sourcing service program with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and remote troubleshooting or a complete round-the-clock outsourcing solution. Progent supports System Center Operations Manager 2007 to provide small company information systems world-class availability, protection, and productivity.

Before Progentís Microsoft Operations Manager solution, system issues were handled reactively, after users complained about them. With the benefit of proactive, computer generated alerts and trend reports sent by Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent is now able to fix server problems before they grow to be critical enough to disrupt network uptime. Because of Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can deal with looming problems before customers suspect that the problems exist. Progent has expertise with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to offer small company networks enterprise-class reliability, safety and productivity.

Microsoft Systems Management Server offers extra functionality for change and configuration management of Windows-based networks through introducing Feature Packs. Feature Packs reduce the overall administrative expense of managing and deploying software by making it easier to install system images, control mobile computers, and operate management utilities. In addition to alerting you about ways to save management expenses by deploying Microsoft SMS 2003 Feature Packs, Progent's consulting experts can help you plan and perform IT projects that cover areas that Feature Packs are intended to streamline. Progent's migration and upgrade services can minimize spending and eliminate business disruption as you transition to the latest operating systems and applications. Progent's wireless engineers can help you develop efficient processes and standards to manage handheld computers and smart portable phones so your mobile workforce stays productive and secure. Progent's CISSP-certified consultants and CISM-certified consulting professionals can show you how to design a security strategy that incorporates standards, processes and IT products to keep your IT computer system protected.

VMware's NSX virtual network technology enables you to create complete logical networks in software. NSX allows virtual networks to be provisioned instantly and managed with a high degree of automation independent of the physical components making up the basic network infrastructure. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) supports automated recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also permits transparent testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and fixes and can produce reports to confirm complete service recovery, validate SLAs and demonstrate compliance. When used with VMware's NSX virtual network technology, VMware SRM can quickly restore the entire virtualized network topology at the recovery datacenter. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consulting expert and VMware Site Recovery Manager system architect to assist you to design, configure, test and manage a DR solution based on VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware NSX.

Progent's certified Office and Office 365 experts can help businesses to incorporate Office desktop and Office 365 applications including Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Visio and Publisher into a seamless solution that provides fast ROI and promotes better business results. Progent can assist your company to integrate Microsoft Office or Office 365 apps with one another and with additional core Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server running locally or hosted in the cloud. Progent can also help you to resolve compatibility issues between various versions of Office and offers customized online training to individuals or teams.

Altaro VM Backup software provides small organizations a reliable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, remote, distributed, and cloud-hosted environments and also supports low-cost cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Top features include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage needs, Continuous Data Protection with backup spacing as little as five minutes for minimizing your Recovery Point Objective, advanced encryption, item-level recovery options for individual files and emails, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes and for vCenter for managing large-scale deployments, and the ability to leverage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up live virtual machines without downtime. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a wide array of consulting services to assist you to design, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution powered by Altaro VM Backup.

Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service combines proven virtualization technology, a state-of-the-art data center facility, and the technical support services of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team to provide small and midsize businesses with a comprehensive information technology outsourcing solution that enhances network availability and security, reduces management distraction, and lowers expenses. With Private Cloud Hosting, a small or midsize company can have all of its operating system platforms and key business application servers hosted in a secure and reliable data center on a high-performance, high-availability virtual server set up and supported by Progent's network service professionals.

Cisco's security and offsite connection products for small organizations provide a full range of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN line includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to assist your organization to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, Cisco Aironet and Meraki wireless access points, and other Cisco security technologies that fit best with your business goals.

Progentís Microsoft-certified consultants can provide organizations of any size consulting, troubleshooting, and development services for Microsoft SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an enterprise platform that uses web-based technology for efficiently coordinating people, teams and information. SharePoint offers a common location for your workers or clients to access, manage, share and manipulate useful data, documents, and software and to interact with one another. SharePoint enables quicker and better decisions, more efficient sharing across teams and more economical business processes. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, clients, teams and major tasks with the information theyíve developed in a way that makes data easy to locate, retrieve and re-use. Progent's certified SharePoint consultants can help your organization to maintain your existing SharePoint environment or upgrade to the latest release of SharePoint Server or to SharePoint Online.

Nagios and MRTG are powerful, Open Source monitoring tools that operate with the Linux OS and can be deployed to monitor UNIX networks, MS Windows systems, or mixed-platform environments where the Linux OS and Microsoft Windows coexist. Nagios lets network support engineers to monitor system services such as POP3, HTTP, SSH, and NNTP. MRTG lets you track the traffic in and out of SNMP-enabled network appliances including processors, routers, and switches. Progent's system integration consultants can show you how to utilize both these programs to tune and troubleshoot your network.

Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist you to automate desktop PC change and update management by delivering support for management tools that include System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Systems Management Server 2003, and WSUS.

For corporations with branch offices in or any area covered by Progent's engineers, Progent's Microsoft-Premier network consulting experts and certified Cisco network consultants offer a range of network support services such as project planning, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, office moves, corporate security, network design, local or phone-based branch office support, and technical support for collocation hosting environments. A Progent IT architect can help you plan a multi-site network that makes smart use of co-location facilities and Internet hosting sites. Progentís Microsoft Certified engineers can help large corporations plan, integrate and support massive rollouts of updated versions of Microsoft technology including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint, Microsoft SQL, and Enterprise Windows. Progentís Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional experts can assist you to deploy Cisco technology for connection solutions that combine basic, high-speed, integrated, and wireless networking.

Progent's Apple Mac experts can promote the creative aspect of Macintosh computing by offering consulting services and education in graphics, audio, and motion video. Progent's support professionals offer expertise in a range of Mac programs including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Digidesign Pro Tools, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Adobe After Effects. Progent can also help you with specific jobs such as capturing or digitizing audio or video or setting up an audio/video post production facility.

Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's ProSight Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progentís Microsoft certified experts provide a variety of consulting services for Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains. Microsoft Dynamics GP is a Microsoft accounting package and business management tool based, like all Microsoft financial tools, on the scalable and popular foundation of Windows technology. Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010, the most recent edition of Microsoft accounting software in the Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains line, provides an affordable tool for controlling and integrating accounting, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, CRM, and human resources. Dynamics GP/Great Plains is easy to deploy and configure, and with its modular approach you are able to purchase only the functions you currently need, with the option to expand users and increase functionality in the future. Progentís Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains Software support experts can show you how to install, customize and manage Dynamics GP 2010 and also earlier editions of Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains.

Dynamics GP can help you expand and manage your company more efficiently by delivering deep availability of decision-driving data and a rapid ROI. Dynamics GP offers important business benefits such as its ability to expand the presence of your organization, handle your accounting, automate financial processes, standardize processes across your company, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, expand sales and shorten turnaround time, and increase free cash flow. Progent can help you configure and manage a robust, secure server and communications foundation to support Great Plains, and can offer experienced Dynamics GP/Great Plains support professionals to help you reap the full advantages of your Microsoft Dynamics GP software.

Cisco's Small Business series of APs are Linux-powered units intended as value-priced wireless APs for small offices. Progent's Cisco CCIE wireless network experts offer remote or onsite configuration and troubleshooting services to help you to design, implement, update, tune, administer and debug Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi AP deployments of any scale or topology.

Progent's remote access and smartphone synchronization experts can help your business to plan and deploy secure access solutions for off-site desktops, laptops, and wireless handhelds so they integrate tightly with your IT network, enabling you to improve the efficiency of your off-site workforce.

Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you evaluate the business case for adopting Juniper's SRX Series gateways, plan and execute cost-effective deployments, configure equipment to reflect your security strategy, and provide ongoing consulting services to help you monitor, manage, update, and troubleshoot your environment in order to maximize the business value of your SRX gateway solution.

Progent's Cisco-certified IT consultants can help you create an economical, high availability Internet configuration solution that can achieve non-stop Internet connectivity through a wide array of high availability Internet access technologies including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent offers CCIE consultants to show you how to utilize the most current techniques for fault tolerant Internet connections to create an affordable, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to deliver zero-downtime Internet access.

Progent is among the most expert information technology consulting companies for creating e-mail solutions based on Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent is skilled in helping small companies derive all the advantages of Exchange 2000 under common scenarios such as updating from Exchange 5.5, moving from an ISP-based or POP3 e-mail environment, and jobbing out your Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server support.

Progentís Microsoft certified consultants offer small and medium sized businesses expertise for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Servers. Microsoft's Forefront Threat Management Gateway and Internet Security and Acceleration Servers contain a full featured application-layer aware firewall that can protect your IT system from attack by external and internal sources. Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Server provide thorough examination of Internet protocols such as HTTP, which allows these products to detect many threats that can get by traditional firewalls. The integrated firewall and VPN structure of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Server permit stateful filtering and inspection of all VPN streams. ISA Servers are the centerpiece of Microsoft's network security strategy, and Progent's Microsoft-certified experts and CISSP, CISA and CISM certified security professionals can help you enhance your IT protection through expert design and deployment of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Servers. Progent's Microsoft consultants can help your company to configure Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, maintain any version of ISA Server, or upgrade smoothly from ISA Server environments to Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway.

Dynamics GP software offers analytics and reporting capabilities that allow you to track all operations, sales and expenses, and sales patterns with built-in drill-down, query, and reporting functions. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains reporting support services can help you create reports that allow you to understand your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked data into valuable business information. Progent is able to enhance your reporting and business analysis by providing Crystal Reports consulting, FRx support, and Microsoft Excel assistance. In addition to delivering reporting help, Progent can provide Microsoft .NET support, Microsoft SQL Server expertise, and programming design with VBasic, XML and other tools in order to offer custom line-of-business application development and web commerce solutions that work seamlessly with Dynamics GP.

Progent can provide affordable online access to a certified Oracle database administration expert or an Oracle application developer. Progent offers advanced database administration services for all versions of Oracle including 10g and 11g and can also help plan, create, enhance, or fix Oracle applications based on SQL and PL/SQL. Progent also can provide consulting for Streams replication technologies and Oracle Recovery Manager.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 introduces major enhancements in speed, capacity, security and compliance, high-availability, BOYD support, plus integrated BI. New features include PolyBase for processing relational and non-relational files simultaneously for data warehousing, Hadoop integration, Dynamic Data Masking, Mobile Reports, and seamless management of local and cloud-based operations and services. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can deliver online and onsite expertise to help businesses of all sizes to deploy, administer or troubleshoot any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also help you to integrate SQL Server 2016 with other core Microsoft technologies including Windows Server and Hyper-V, Exchange Server 2016, SharePoint, Dynamics GP, Skype for Business, and System Center Operations Manager.

Progentís IT outsourcing services offer affordable computer consulting for small businesses. Whether it includes designing network infrastructure, creating an in-house Help Desk or using an outside one, rolling out a new email system, monitoring your system, or creating a web-based business application, outsourcing your network engineering services can reduce costs and eliminate risks, permitting IT support expenses to increase in a more moderate and controlled fashion than is feasible by building up a bulky, all-purpose internal IT organization. Progentís Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets explain how Progent can help you build a protected and robust network foundation for your vital applications based on Microsoft Windows such as Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2000.